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  • Country ranking ?

    72
  • Producer ranking ?

    2
  • Decanting time

    -
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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The Story

The south facing 12 acre vineyard – located in the sleepy picturesque and biscuit-coloured Murrumbateman landscape – is planted on sandy clay loams over friable clays. The need to be different during the 1980s boutique winery boom moved Clonakilla away from the mainstream in 1986 and into the unproven but tantalising marriage potential and astounding nuances of Viognier as a co-factor in the vinification of Shiraz. This is a supreme example of...

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Vintage 2009

Near-optimum rainfall over winter, followed by dry, mild conditions over spring provided a good environment for budburst and an ideal start to the growing season with canopies developing well. Climatic conditions favoured flowering and set with mild and calm weather, however there was some shatter in Shiraz across parts of the state resulting in small crops for many regions. Some early to mid-December summer rainfall was follo...

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Tim believes this vintage to be the best yet seen in the Canberra region. Elsewhere in parts of Australia, horrendous bushfires and heat caused immense problems, though these did come a little earlier than the heat endured the previous year and so the damage was not as great as incurred in 2008 in places. It was a year where the region's typically large diurnal temperature fluctuations (15 to 20 degrees) gave it a real advantage, maintaining the requisite level of natural acidity.

5% Viognier; 22% whole bunches. 14.2%.

Tim had no hesitation in describing it as “the greatest wine we've made”, some years ago. At the time, no one was arguing.

And with good cause. This is a world class wine, by any standard. Neon cherry red with flecks of purple. This wine is utterly and completely balanced. Spices, red berries, liqueur cherries, a pleasing and appealing ripeness. Silky tannins on an extremely long finish. A brilliant, transcendental wine, which will be providing pleasure for many years to come.

 

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